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Date:      Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:13:50 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR?
Message-ID:  <20121020171350.GX1393@glenbarber.us>
In-Reply-To: <20121020190402.253eb553@suse3>
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On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 07:04:02PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Am Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:14:01 -0400
> schrieb Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>:
>=20
>=20
> > The grub prompt for (Open)Solaris?  Or do you use grub on FreeBSD?
>=20
> I thought it was a linux grub (the Firmware-Update DVD is linux-based
> and I thought it had gone postal.
> But I came to realize that it was the Solaris grub.
> We only use FreeBSD on servers and it's always the only OS on the disks.
> =20

Ok, thank you.  I did not want to assume anything here.

> > I _think_ at this point, you've hit the same problem I hit, the only
> > difference is that in my case, 9.1-PRERELEASE was installed twice,
> > because the paritions were not ideal.
> >=20
> > So, my guess is if you were to boot the install cd and select 'Live
> > CD' or 'Shell' from the first menu option, and wrote the GPT bootcode
> > to da0p1 (assuming da0 is the drive) and reboot, it would have booted
> > fine.
>=20
>=20
> I don't think this is what a user is expecting from an OS installation
> routine....
> It's a bug.
>=20

Oh, I agree.  For what it is worth, when I ran into this, I just merely
thought I did something wrong during the install, so writing the gptboot
code to the drive was my quick fix.

I originally didn't bother reproducing it, until about an hour later
when I saw this thread start.  The frustrating part now is I have had
zero luck reproducing the problem...

Glen


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